Thanks For The Help

Why I Do This

I was lucky enough to be a teenager through the eighties and I was mad on music, big hair, bad make-up and all that went with being a teenager of the times. All these years later I still have the big hair but now it is "touched" with grey and the bad make-up is gone but the tunes still play loudly in my head and even louder if they grace my radio, tv or mp3player. I will gladly admit to being a"mainstream" fan for the most part but I do have the odd liking for some of the less "played to death" bands of the time. What started all this was a drawer full of slowly decaying cassettes and a fear of losing the music that is on them. So I began to recreate them onto CD and I am loving it and finding some fantastic albums along the way.

I would like to re-dedicate this site to my late husband, he lost his long battle with cancer in 2011, he was a huge 80's fan, possibly even more so than myself. So for you my love.

Download Links

Updated 7th May 2012

Hi All, I am slowly re-adding download links to each of the original posts so please be patient and check back often. NB:Also please be aware before you download that I upload files ripped at a bitrate of 128. If you prefer a higher bitrate I am only too happy to of supplied the tracklistings to assist you in searching for those tracks at a bitrate you prefer.Thanks Meggsy

8 comments:

meggsy .... A great place to start with 80's compilation tapes.If you were to play these tapes chronologically (had to check the spelling) by year, you would see how the different styles of popular music progressed through the eighties. One good things the "tapes" had over some vinyl compilation releases is that they had **two bonus tracks**. Although not prone to scratches like vinyl, an even scarier thought was the tapes getting chewed ....aaaaaargh!

Don't know where to start on converting my hundreds of tapes and cassingles .....

During 1990 I did a fair bit of club DJ'ing in both 'straight' and 'gay' nitespots throughout Newcastle and Sydney (under a different DJ name), and the first two tracks on this tape were 'must-plays' for me. Thanks for upping these, as they're both hard to get and essential to any collection of 80's tracks.

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For the benifit of all the "Copyright Police" out there. The artwork used for my banner I found on Amazon.com and it is the coverart for an album called 80s Tapes-Pop & Wave. Yes I have altered the image somewhat and NO I am not claiming it as my own.Now for the big bit, Any of the music I post links for downloading are for sampling purposes only. DELETE THE FILES WITHIN 24 HOURS PLEASE!!